As I continued to read the book "At Knit's End", I found an entry that I have to share with everyone here at MWK:

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women. -Indira Ghandhi

I was teaching a children's knitting class in the rear of a toy shop. Halfway through class a little boy shopping with his mother wandered over and approached an 11-year-old boy happily and expertly knitting a potholder. "Hey!" he laughed, "boys don't knit!" "Clearly," said the manly young knitter, "they do."

I've been curious lately to know why the term "frogging" is used for the painful process of ripping back hours - if not days - of work. No one I asked knew the answer and then last evening when I was reading "At Knit's End" I came across the following.

Frogging: the act of taking the knitting off the needles and pulling the working yarn to undo the stitches. This is done to unravel knitting completely or to pull the work out to a point before an error, when the knitting is replaced on needles. It is called "frogging" because you "rip-it, rip-it."